Ex-uni student given 5-year term for murdering woman at her request

A Japanese court sentenced a former university student to five years in prison on Monday for murdering a 36-year-old woman in Tokyo last year on her request.The Tokyo District Court found Mizuki Kitajima, 22, of Iruma, Saitama Prefecture, guilty of strangling the woman to death in a hotel room in the Ikebukuro entertainment district on the afternoon of Sept. 12, 2019.The woman, whose name was withheld for privacy reasons, had responded to tweets Kitajima sent offering to help someone who wanted to commit suicide.In handing down the ruling, Presiding Judge Hideki Igeta said Kitajima's act "d…READ FULL ARTICLE